VOL. 1, ISSUE 1
SPRING 2018
THE TIDE The official newsletter of MSC Freshmen in Service & Hosting
WHAT'S
THIS
IN
ISSUE
INTRODUCTION
MSC FISH is a Freshmen Leadership Organization (FLO) on campus at A&M that stands for Memorial
Introduction
Student Center Freshmen in Service and Hosting. We
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have the privilege of operating as a committee within
Structure of FISH
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the MSC which allows us the ability to serve far and wide throughout the community. We consist of ninety freshmen, eighteen sophomore Assistant Directors,
Programs
seven Junior Executives and one supervisor. Our
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supervisor is the wonderful Mrs. Katy King who has been serving as the Program Coordinator for the
School Profile Pages
PAGE 08 Trends & Alumni Questionnaire
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MSC.
STRUCTURE
OF
MSC
FISH
FISH divides its 90 freshmen and 18 staff into four subcommittees that handle all programs from Run the Ramps to Kyle Field Day and MSC WAVES. The four committees are Service & Hosting, Development, Kyle Field Day, and Donations & Marketing.
Service & Hosting is responsible for organizing weekly service at places such as Jones Elementary, Brazos Valley Food Bank, Headstart and many more places we have the privilege of serving at. They also host the annual leadership conference, MSC WAVES, which has just recently had its third anniversary, and proven to be a very powerful and influential seminar on what it means to be a servant leader.
Development is a sub-committee responsible for organizing Run the Ramps, a 5K fun run through Kyle Field, as well as FLO Bowl, a fall powderpuff and cheer tournament for all FLOs on campus. They also run all necessary events within the organization itself and plan profit shares and fundraisers.
Kyle Field Day is the signature program of MSC FISH and requires its own committee to handle all things
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FISH
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necessary to making this day a success. They spend all year planning the event that occurs at the end of April
best
friends
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life.
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by organizing the service booths and anchor projects as well as planning other small service projects leading up to it to create awareness for the largest
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laugh
people
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freshmen led, one day service event on campus. care,
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Donations & Marketing is the last committee of MSC FISH and is responsible for the finances of the
grounded,
and
most
organization. They make business rounds to collect donations from companies for programs, talk to
importantly,
people
who
potential sponsors, write grants to fund our programs love
me
and
who
I
and market our programs through social media. Overall, MSC FISH is a well-structured organization
love.”
that has impacted the Bryan-College Station community heavily and will continue to do so as long as it is able.
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- ANNA HANEL
https://fish.tamu.edu/
PROGRAMS
Kids Against Hunger “As someone who tends to be
introverted, I have learned to embrace
every opportunity to grow closer with
those around me. Serving my
community has become a weekly
routine that I look forward to rather
than a burden. Taking part in
Kyle Field Day
programs and projects has shown me
the value of teamwork as well as the
accountability of being a team
member. MSC FISH has served as an
opportunity for me to grow as a leader
and has made my first year of college
unforgettable.”
Run the Ramps
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- MITCHELL SCOGNA
https://fish.tamu.edu/
PROGRAM
DESCRIPTIONS
MSC WAVES & KIDS AGAINST HUNGER One of the pillars of Memorial Student Center Freshmen in Service and Hosting (MSC FISH) is leadership. We strive to develop all of our members professionally and equip them with the skills to go out into the real world as leaders. This applies to our Freshmen general members and even all the way up to our Junior Chair. MSC FISH has its freshmen members put on multiple large-scale events in order to teach real-world, applicable skills. One of these large scale events is known as MSC WAVES. Like a drop of water in a pond causing the water to ripple out, MSC WAVES strives to develop and enhance the leadership skills of the attendants and teach them how they can ripple their servant leadership skills out to the people and world around them. Within the conference there is an opportunity for networking through staff facilitated group discussions, where attendants can make longlasting connections along with developing or challenging ideas they already hold. What makes these leaders unique, however, is the fact that they become servant leaders. Always keeping the thought of others in their mind, they are able to make decisions that
I
was
A&M
nervous
because
coming
it’s
so
into
big,
will benefit society as a whole. In an effort to create these servant minded leaders, MSC WAVES partners with a food packing event known as Kids Against Hunger. While we do
and
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didn’t
was
going
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bring in speakers and lead small group discussions during the conference, the attendees also have a chance to take part in a hands-on large scale service project to truly
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at
FISH,
A&M,
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and
I’ve
made
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had
found
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and
my
home
friends
experiences
learn what it means to serve. Last year we have
shaped
my
were able to pack over 27,000 meals and send them off to local areas and countries, such as Haiti, that are in need of food.
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entire
freshman
year.”
- SUJATA DALAL
https://fish.tamu.edu/
RUN THE RAMPS Run
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FISH's
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endeavors.
- CHRIS WALKER, DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE Run the Ramps is a 5K that MSC FISH puts on through the concourses of Kyle Field. We are fortunate enough to host one of the two runs that go through Kyle Field, the football stadium of Texas A&M. By putting on this program, we hope to bring awareness to living healthy lives and getting active, while also promoting our value of service. Our general committee members have the chance to work on marketing and professional skills such as contacting donors, such as Smoothie King or KIND Bar, to secure donations or creating new ways to market the event. This is the third year that Run the Ramps will be held and each year we hope to change it and grow it in some way. Whether that be to incorporate a fun run for families to get out a spend time together or to change our marketing tactics to reach a wider scope of people, Run the Ramps is one of our most flexible, always-changing programs. We want to offer people the opportunity to experience Kyle Field in a different atmosphere from a typical football game and to just have a good time with their friends or families. As people take part in the run, they can see the benefit of living an active, healthy life while also being able to incorporate service into that life. The money we raise from Run the Ramps goes strictly to Kyle Field Day, our other one day service event in Kyle Field, and we use these funds to contact more booths to come in and represent their service goals or to fund various entertainment sources or anchor projects. Run the Ramps is a fun way to spend a Saturday and be active while also learning the importance of service and how we can help those all around us to better the community.
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https://fish.tamu.edu/
KYLE FIELD DAY Kyle Field Day is a one day service event held at Kyle Field in April. The mission of Kyle Field Day is to connect Texas A&M students and the Bryan/College Station community with service organizations from not only on and off campus, but also national and international organizations to complete impactful, hands-on service projects for the missions of the organizations. With an expected 3,000 participants and 50plus service booths, Kyle Field Day has a widespread impact. On Kyle Field Day, participants will walk into the concourse of Kyle Field and see it lined with booths with every kind of project they can think of. These projects range from tying blankets to donate to impoverished elderly people, to building benches for a special needs camp, to writing letters to the troops, to putting together comfort bags for patients undergoing chemotherapy. In just a couple of hours, each participant can impact more people than they could ever imagine. Along with a wide variety of service opportunities, attendees can participate in yells led by our Yell Leaders, take pictures with Reveille, play games and watch performances from groups like Apotheosis and Fade to Black. The goal of this day is to bring Bryan-College Station together as one family to impact the lives of thousands.
"It is a representation of what MSC FISH does all
throughout the year in one day. It's just the
perfect way to end the year of FISH. This day
brings together thousands of people that all want
to do one thin: serve and love people. The energy
on that day is electric and gives me goosebumps
thinking about it, everyone there is so happy to
share their service and you really can't help but
be happy, too." - Kacy Rowley, Assistant Director
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https://fish.tamu.edu/
FLO BOWL FLO Bowl is an annual powder-puff football tournament and cheerleader competition where the girls of each FLO play against each other while the guys of each FLO go head to head in a cheerleader halftime dance routine. This is the first major program that MSC FISH puts on in the school year and is a way for the freshmen to learn how programming runs in a fun and casual environment before the major program season comes around. This year we have pushed for a harder implementation of service into FLO Bowl and worked on a sports equipment drive with Recycled Baseball/Sports Equipment (RBI).
I chose for us to work with them because of the recent
damages in Houston from Hurricane Harvey and the need
for people to feel normalcy again. Sports are an amazing
method of community building and especially powerful for
children, but for these sports events to happen they need
equipment. This drive hopefully created the presence of
service, as this is the basis of our organization, and become
more known by the FLOs so donations can grow from year
to year. - Daniel LaCour, Assistant Director
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
CAELA-KOH PARENTS: REGINA CHEMAS MILES BENTLEY
CHILDREN: GRANT WOOD TYLER CLAY JOSE CURA ELLIE PARKER MARGARET JARDINE ALEX MRAZ JORDAN SANDOW DENISE MIMBELA ALYSSA ALEXANDER DAVID MARTINEZ
FUN FACT: THE SCHOOL’S NAME TRANSLATES TO “SKY ISLAND.” CAELA IS LATIN FOR ‘SKY’ AND KOH IS TAIWANESE FOR ‘ISLAND’.
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
DENIMYTE PARENTS: KACY ROWLEY HENRY MORGAN
CHILDREN: RYEN STRONG CAMERON STEVENS SAM GUERRA CAMILLE BROWN LUIS PINEDA ZACH KALLUS EMILIO FAUTSCH MARIA LESZCZYNSKI
FUN FACT: EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN’T KNOW EACH OTHER BEFOREHAND, THEY SURPRISINGLY ALL HAD THE EXACT SAME TASTE IN MUSIC.
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
DISCY BUSINESS PARENTS: JENNIFER O'NEIL NICK ELEY
CHILDREN: ALEX IACOBUCCI PARKER KALLMAN JAMES SECHLER REILLY HANSON GABRIELLA WEBSTER ALYSSA JEWELL KENDALL PEARSON JACCARD NELSON NICOLE NICHOLS TYSON MAILLOUX
FUN FACT: THIS QUIRKY BUNCH NAMED THEIR SCHOOL AFTER A FRISBEE BEING THROWN AT THEM ON REV NIGHT.
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
EXTRA SKETCH PARENTS: KARA BRAMHALL DANIEL LACOUR
CHILDREN: SARIKA SUBRAMANIAN ELLIE BACON NATE JOLLY MITCHELL SCOGNA HANNAH CHUONG JOHN DEBENPORT WILL CURRAN LAURA DELCID SAM DIXON
FUN FACT: THEY WOULD RATHER ORDER FOOD IN TO KARA OR DANIEL’S HOUSE THAN GO OUT TO EAT!
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
GYPSY HOOD PARENTS: JOELLA BITTER RONNIE SLOAN
CHILDREN: BRADEN HOBBS TYLER JOHNSON LAYNE JOHNSON HUNTER NEAL BEN BORER HANNAH KIM MADISON BOURGEOIS CEARA DALY ANNA RAD KIMBERLY MORRISON
FUN FACT: MEMBERS OF THE GYPSY HOOD ARE ALL BIG FANS OF BIG GREEN TRACTORS.
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
KAZEUS PARENTS: GABRI BARBERENA ZAC PORTER
CHILDREN: RYAN WAINERDI ANNIE REESE SAUNDIE FRANZ ABDUL ABUALJAMAL ANDREW DEL RIO JENNA GAULDEN GREYSON RODRIGUEZ EMILY NOEL NATHAN LINK PHOEBE HAILES
FUN FACT: THEIR FAVORITE SONG IS “CLOSER” BY THE CHAINSMOKERS.
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
RAGOONS FUN FACT: EVERYONE IN THIS SCHOOL GOT A PERFECT 36 ON THE ACT EXCEPT ANDREW BALOG.
PARENTS:
CHILDREN:
ASHLEY WILKS
ANNA HUNTRESS
BRADEN SIMS
SHARON LI KELSEY ROBINSON SAM ALLEN CONNER LEFFEL NATHAN RIEGER ANDREW BALOG ZEKE RASHID ANNA HANEL
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
SNAPBACKS & FRATSNAPS PARENTS: MIRANDA ORSAK ARJUN RAO
CHILDREN: DONYA TARTIBI SIMON HOLMES LEXIE RADOR CATHERINE O’BRIEN JACOB STELLY LAURA CERCONE SUJI DALAL JAKE ESTRADA CAMDON PRESLEY PARKER PRIMM
FUN FACT: JACOB STELLY WANTED THE SCHOOL NAME TO BE “FRAT SNAPS AND FLIP FLOPS”.
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SCHOOL
PROFILE
PAGES
SOX, STOCKS, & LOCHS PARENTS: CHLOE PRESNALL CHRIS NGUY
CHILDREN: DYLAN BODIE ZACH WILLIAMS SYDNEY WILSON BRYAN HALL MEHGAN ORSAK JOSH BENTON NOAH VAUGHN BEATRIZ RAROQUE JESSICA MOORE
FUN FACT: THEY SURPRISINGLY DO NOT ALL WEAR BIRKENSTOCKS.
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Trends 2008 vs. 2018
“MSC
FISH
freshman
ever
I
made
lifelong
as
a
year
imagined.
have
had
has
the
we’ve
more
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friends,
chance
the
made
than
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only
but
to
I’ve
develop
leader.
I
memories
will
that
forever.”
- LEXIE RADOR
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my
amazing
servant
cherish
impacted
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“MSC
FISH
opinion,
is,
one
in
of
my
the
best
organizations
that
a
freshman
join
at
A&M.
best
can
I’ve
met
friends
of
people
call
a
me
of
through
organization,
provided
some
and
with
that
I
it
a
can
Texas
my
this
has
group
truly
family.”
- ZACH WILLIAMS
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