04-24-2014, 11:46 PM
Hey everyone!
By now most of you either know me, or have at least seen my name on all the emails however I'll still give a short intro about myself. My name is Sam Spicer, I currently am Vice President of the club and have been in the club since I was a Freshmen, which was when Cody was President. I'm a CIS major and while I'm a currently a Junior I already know I'll be here for a victory lap as well, but the good news about being here for a victory lap is I never have to take more than 12 credit hours per semester for the rest of my college career giving me quite an advantage of free time for being President next year. Another thing is I'm living with Ryan Herold and Anthony Manno next year, and with 3 officers living together it would mean we are constantly working for the club while we are not in class. I think that the team of officers this year did a decent job, with that said as being one of those officers I really got to see what we need to work on and what we need more of.
What I'd like to do as President
I would like to further increase our attendance in the club, this year we started out strong having nearly 30 members show up per meeting, but as the year went on we trailed off to about a steady 10-15 per meet. I think we can do that by having members reach out to the new members (like I always have) and exchange phone numbers and try and reach out to them and entice them to come out and stay active in the club. I'd also like to get us in on the JMU mass emails at the start of next year while Freshmen still actually read all their emails, and also hand out sheets of paper at the commons with info on MM to help spread our name (as a large portion of JMU students have never heard of us).
Getting more member's directly translates into more money for the club, and the more money we have the more we can do fun stuff. So if we can up the membership then we can go karting more often, have cookouts, cooler/more apparel, and have more MM get-togethers on club money. Also we could possibly even do a "we pay half your first hyperdrive" kinda deal to entice more kids to show up to the track, as that got us quite a few member's to come out to the College solo this year and everyone knows once you take that first hit of the go fast crack pipe it's pretty much impossible to put down.
I'd like to be more organized as a club for next year, and what I mean by that is, I want things more planned out instead of planning things 2 days before they happen. I realize some of that is unavoidable, like the drag strip meets earlier this year, Eastside doesn't post up that they will be allowing test N' tunes for the night until the day before or even the day of usually. However, I'd still like things more planned out so that people have some notice to plan their weekends around.
I'd really like to be able to do more social events for next year, and we will actually have space to do it next year as 2 different members have volunteered up their apartments to hold events at, as well at mine, Ryan and Anthony's place. So let the Toretto styled cookouts commence!
For the car show I'd like to carry on with what Garrett started this year and continue to grow the show, as the bigger show we hold the more chance it has for bringing in new member's! I would also like to have things better planned and prepared for next year's car show as the week before we really still had a lot of planning to do which I felt should have already been done and with a solid plan it's hard to fail. As a quote my father always tell's me "Men don't plan to fail. They fail to plan, and that's what causes real failure."
So with that being said I have a plan for next year and by no means do I plan to fail the club as President! :thumbup:
By now most of you either know me, or have at least seen my name on all the emails however I'll still give a short intro about myself. My name is Sam Spicer, I currently am Vice President of the club and have been in the club since I was a Freshmen, which was when Cody was President. I'm a CIS major and while I'm a currently a Junior I already know I'll be here for a victory lap as well, but the good news about being here for a victory lap is I never have to take more than 12 credit hours per semester for the rest of my college career giving me quite an advantage of free time for being President next year. Another thing is I'm living with Ryan Herold and Anthony Manno next year, and with 3 officers living together it would mean we are constantly working for the club while we are not in class. I think that the team of officers this year did a decent job, with that said as being one of those officers I really got to see what we need to work on and what we need more of.
What I'd like to do as President
I would like to further increase our attendance in the club, this year we started out strong having nearly 30 members show up per meeting, but as the year went on we trailed off to about a steady 10-15 per meet. I think we can do that by having members reach out to the new members (like I always have) and exchange phone numbers and try and reach out to them and entice them to come out and stay active in the club. I'd also like to get us in on the JMU mass emails at the start of next year while Freshmen still actually read all their emails, and also hand out sheets of paper at the commons with info on MM to help spread our name (as a large portion of JMU students have never heard of us).
Getting more member's directly translates into more money for the club, and the more money we have the more we can do fun stuff. So if we can up the membership then we can go karting more often, have cookouts, cooler/more apparel, and have more MM get-togethers on club money. Also we could possibly even do a "we pay half your first hyperdrive" kinda deal to entice more kids to show up to the track, as that got us quite a few member's to come out to the College solo this year and everyone knows once you take that first hit of the go fast crack pipe it's pretty much impossible to put down.
I'd like to be more organized as a club for next year, and what I mean by that is, I want things more planned out instead of planning things 2 days before they happen. I realize some of that is unavoidable, like the drag strip meets earlier this year, Eastside doesn't post up that they will be allowing test N' tunes for the night until the day before or even the day of usually. However, I'd still like things more planned out so that people have some notice to plan their weekends around.
I'd really like to be able to do more social events for next year, and we will actually have space to do it next year as 2 different members have volunteered up their apartments to hold events at, as well at mine, Ryan and Anthony's place. So let the Toretto styled cookouts commence!
For the car show I'd like to carry on with what Garrett started this year and continue to grow the show, as the bigger show we hold the more chance it has for bringing in new member's! I would also like to have things better planned and prepared for next year's car show as the week before we really still had a lot of planning to do which I felt should have already been done and with a solid plan it's hard to fail. As a quote my father always tell's me "Men don't plan to fail. They fail to plan, and that's what causes real failure."
So with that being said I have a plan for next year and by no means do I plan to fail the club as President! :thumbup:
-07' Nissan Nismo 350z #0004 of 1500 - The DD
-03' Nissan 350z Track edition (The new play car)
-89' Nissan 240sx - The track car (That never runs) Sold
-99' Ford Mustang Sold
-85' BMW 325e Gone but not forgotten.Sold
-76' Kawasaki KZ400 Sold
-03' Ducati Monster 800
-03' Nissan 350z Track edition (The new play car)
-89' Nissan 240sx - The track car (That never runs) Sold
-99' Ford Mustang Sold
-85' BMW 325e Gone but not forgotten.Sold
-76' Kawasaki KZ400 Sold
-03' Ducati Monster 800
