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Senior class gift committee hopes to raise $10,000

Franklin Pierce College’s senior class gift committee held their first meeting last Wednesday and discussed how the class can attempt to raise 10,000 dollars.

The committee, which consists of 10 seniors, is trying to raise about 2,000 dollars more than last years’ senior class, who raised 8,000.

"At first I thought it seemed like a lot of money to try and raise," said committee member Matthew Soule. "But after Ahmad explained it further I thought we could definitely reach our goal."

Ahmad Boura is the head senior gift committee and has been working closely with this years seniors to make sure they understand exactly what is expected of them and the committee as a whole.

"Ahmad has done a great job helping us with the process this far," said Soule. "The committee is still in its beginning stages, but everything is going well."

The main goal of the senior gift committee is to educate seniors about the importance of life long connections with Franklin Pierce. The program also wants to generate high participation amongst seniors and create a volunteer structure for the class.

"Ahmad constantly stresses the importance of the future of Franklin Pierce and the relationships we should try to make," said Soule. "It is not only about making money to get the school a gift, but it’s about the friendships and people you meet that will last well after we graduate."

The responsibilities of the committee are to make a personal gift to the class and also attempt to get 10 to 15 classmates to do the same.

"Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money," said Soule. "But each student has a 300 hundred dollar contingence fee that they got at the beginning of the year. If there is no damage to where the student lives, they get that money back."

In years past seniors have been very generous with this money. Currently there are about 260 students in the senior class, which means if every student participated each would have to give just over 38 dollars for the committee to reach there goal. However, in reality this never happens.

"Sometimes people are willing to give a lot of money and sometimes a little," said Soule. "But there are always people who do not give anything, which makes our job harder."

The senior class committee meets monthly and discusses what progress has been made and where the committee could strengthen its strategy. The goal of the committee is to have the 10,000 dollars raised by the senior breakfast in May.

"It is a lot of money especially when students just paid over 100,000 dollars for and education," said Soule. "But we hope that our classmates will be generous and give back to our school, not only for the gift, but throughout the years."