Student Council Candidate Profile: Gilbert Shea

Rising senior Presidential candidate Gilbert Shea

Gilbert Shea, candidate for Executive Student Council President, is a constant contributor to his community, as demonstrated by his roles as a student-ambassador, a member of the two-time 3A state champion men’s golf team and the sophomore and junior Class President for the class of 2020.

Shea’s sterling reputation speaks for itself, but he says that “I plan to achieve a lot if I am elected student-body president. I want to get our students more engaged in the fundraisers around school, create more fun events for the students of all interests at our school and increase the role that the student council has at the school…by possibly improving the advertising of the fundraisers, making them competitive or making sure students understand where there money is going towards. I want the students of each grade to be able to communicate about anything school related with the executive board or their class officers so we can help discuss these things amongst ourselves and possibly even the administration.”

Since Shea’s role as President is assured, he says “I think I will really enjoy being president. It will be a great honour but I will have to hold myself accountable and make sure that I work-hard to fulfill my role and I want to leave a legacy that improves the role of the student council at Charlotte Catholic High School for the future.”

I want to thank a lot of our teachers and students for their support and just simply anyone who encourages a friend or classmate who is running because it is very nerve-racking to give a speech in front of the school. I’d also like to tell the student body to be supportive of everyone and I would also like them to possibly consider running for a position during the class elections in the fall.
Gilbert Shea

Student Council Candidate Profile: Kevin Kullick

Rising senior First Vice President candidate Kevin Kullick

Kevin Kullick, candidate for Executive Student Council First Vice President, has been a long-standing figure in Student Council for the 2020 class, taking the role of Class Vice President for both sophomore and junior year. His ability to build relationships with both students and adults is well-practiced through both reaching out to his classmates and attending many Charlotte Catholic donor events as a Student Council representative; his crowning achievement of his Student Council career was holding the first Sadie Hawkins dance at Charlotte Catholic in over three years.

Kullick’s goals for next year are “to have the student body feel more unified and together to help serve the community.” He adds, “I would also love to have another Sadie Hawkins dance.”
On his plans for making these goals reality, he says, “we can achieve this goal by continuing to have support from the Charlotte Catholic student body. The students have truly impressive goals for the school and we have a desire to do our best to achieve them.”

As Kullick is running unopposed, he is confident in his victory, saying “I think that I will enjoy being first vice president because I love to help the school and be a representative of the student body. I think that this position will be very similar to what I have been facing the past few years but the only difference is that there will be a larger scale of people to serve, but I am looking forward to achieving many goals this upcoming year!”

The people that I want to thank for supporting me during the election are every one that sees potential in me to be a leader in the school. I would like to thank our current student council (both junior class and executive) for being such a close-knit community and supporting one another. However, the person that I want to thank the most is Gibby [Gilbert] Shea. He is the most genuine, respectful, and determined 17-year old that I have ever met and his motivation to represent the school is amazing. We have been on student council for a few years now, but I have known him since middle school. He has always loved to represent his school in sports and leadership. He has always been so involved with improving the school and he represents a crucial figure for all of us on the student council.
I would like to say to the students that I am very excited to begin working as a leader in the school and representing them. I would like to encourage them to talk to us if they have any ideas to make CCHS a better place.
Kevin Kullick

Student Council Candidate Profile: Rachel DeRochi

Rising junior Second Vice President candidate Rachel DeRochi

Rachel DeRochi, candidate for Executive Student Council Second Vice President, has been taking leadership roles since elementary school, where she was on the student council in fifth grade; she has taken on a slew of others since, including spots on the varsity women’s lacrosse as a freshman and the Second Honour roll for second and third quarter of her sophomore year.

As Second Vice President, she hopes “to give the school way more dress down days, so that the students have more opportunities to express themselves…. and help bring attention to the cause of expanding the colours on our school uniform sweatshirts, so that people have more outfit choices.” She plans to achieve this “by brainstorming more fundraisers that could be done to make a cause to hold more dress down days,” she says.

I would like to thank my Dad for helping me write my speech and my friends for encouraging me to run for student council.
Go Cougars!
Rachel DeRochi

Student Council Candidate Profile: Jacob Eugene

Rising junior Second Vice President candidate Jacob Eugene

Jacob Eugene, candidate for Executive Student Council Second Vice President, is a talented public speaker and it shows through his many Speech and Debate solo awards and his contributions to Charlotte Catholic’s NCTC District win.

Eugene’s long-term goals as Second Vice President are “adding more [formal and informal] dances and a talent show.. and convincing more people to come to theatre productions and athletic events.” These goals are inspired by his little sister, he says. “I want to make the school fun for her and her class, when she comes to Charlotte Catholic.” He plans to also improve how the Student Council reaches out to the student body by “revamping our marketing to include more social media or funnier posters… but if that doesn’t work I can always do what I do best, keep asking until they listen, to me and the people.”

Thank you to my friends for helping me put up the posters, Mr. Sigwald for editing my speech, and Dollar Tree and Google Images for the posters and memes respectively.
“I’m your man” -Cory Baxter. Vote for me because I have great ideas and look like the greatest president of our time…Cory Baxter of Cory in the House fame.
Jacob Eugene

Student Council Candidate Profile: Brynn Heslin

Rising junior candidate for Second Vice President, Brynn Heslin

Brynn Heslin, candidate for Executive Student Council Second Vice President, committs intensely to any task she takes; it shows in her laundry list of achievements: Girl Scout Silver Award recipient, consistent First Honours student, Speech and Debate Nationals qualifier, and a Presidential Service Award recipient.

Heslin’s focus as Second Vice President will be “giving a voice to the study body at CCHS,” she says. Encouragement of clubs at Charlotte Catholic is the focus of her platform, and helping the annual Club Day fair run smoother “so that people can actually listen to each other and find the clubs that are right for them” is the crux of that plan. Furthermore, she promises to “focus on efficient and entertaining fundraisers so that our clubs, teams, and sports can have the funds to make our school proud.”

From my friend group and beyond, everyone has been so nice and supportive, and my running-mates have been respectful and kind. I really couldn’t have asked for a better running experience, win or lose.
To the student body: I love you guys! Every single student at CCHS deserves to have a great high school experience, and I wanna help make that happen to the best of my ability. I’m seriously invested in making our school better for all of us, and it would mean the world if you voted for me.
Brynn Heslin

Student Council Candidate Profile: Jacqueline Cox

Rising junior candidate for Secretary, Jacqueline Cox

Jacqueline Cox, candidate for Executive Student Council Secretary, is proud to say that she’s been on Student Council “her whole life,” from acting as a class representative throughout elementary school to Student Council Secretary in 6th grade and Vice President in 7th grade before coming to Holy Trinity. Finally, she was elected as secretary of her freshman class last year. She has also qualified for First Honours every semester for the past two years

Cox’s goal as Secretary is to lead drives, projects, and fundraisers that directly support charities or organizations that the students pick. Another major is to help plan a second Sadie’s dance again because she proudly says “it was super fun and successful this past year.” Most importantly though, because she holds this representative aspect of this position in such regard, she “especially wants to be open to any and all from the student body for changes in our community and fun activities they may want to incorporate.”

How Cox plans to reach out to her school community is “by getting the opinions of the faculty and students in our community…with an online poll, or even just by having conversations…with my fellow students, teachers, and friends, to help understand their opinions, [so we can] raise support for the causes the student body wants.”

I want to thank my parents for pushing me out of my comfort zone to do this and my friends for supporting me always. Love you guys.
To the student body: Full disclosure, I’m probably really nervous right now. But vote for me because I’d love to represent you guys and hear your ideas, plus I think I have some great ideas that would benefit us all!
Jacqueline Cox