Executive Officers:
PRESIDENT
Ben Gallegos Pardo
Year: Senior
Major: Liberal Arts Social Science and Spanish
Year in SAC: 3
Best Experience in SAC: Las Vegas road trip/the ghosts in the alumni center
Favorite Quote: “what good is a man if he does not make this world a better place”
VICE PRESIDENT
Brian Carlson
Year: Senior
Major: Speech Communication
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: Distinguished Alumni Dinner 2008
Favorite Quote: Not all who wander are lost
DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP
Candice White
Year: Junior
Major: Social work and family and consumer sciences
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: 50 year luncheon
Favorite Quote: “Pick me, Choose me, Love me”
DIRECTORS OF SPECIAL EVENTS
Kimmer Tennant
Year: Sophomore
Major: Business
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: Getting to know new people and the pancake breakfast
Favorite Quote: Live like it’s heaven on Earth
Maggie Picard
Year: Sophomore
Major: Biology Pre med
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: The annual night before
the pancake breakfast capture the flag extravaganza
Favorite Quote: pick me, choose me, love me
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Meggan Mears
Year: Sophomore
Major: English Education
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: ASAP conference OHIO!
Favorite Quote: I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
HISTORIAN
Roxanne Aeschleman
Year: Sophomore
Major: Apparel Merchandising
DIRECTOR OF GREEN MACHINE
Mike Van Houten
Year: Senior
Major: Business Management
Year in SAC: 4
Best Experience in SAC: Dinner with 12 Strangers
Favorite Quote: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
Leadership Council Profiles
Amber Bedee
Year: Freshman
Major: Political Science
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Capture the flag in the oval before the pancake breakfast
Favorite Quote: “Never give up, never surrender!”
Anica Wong
Year: Senior
Major: Journalism and Technical Communication
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: Making a sledding train at our retreat
Favorite Quote: The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return
Bri Essman
Year: Freshman
Major: Sports Medicine
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: being hostess to the wine tasting 2007
Favorite Quote: Only those who risk going too far will find out how far one can go.
Cody Chacon
Year: Sophomore
Major: Business Administrator/ Marketing
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: Pancake breakfast
Favorite Quote: Who is your daddy and what does he do?
Danielle “Dani” Harless
Year: Freshman
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Retreats and attending basketball games with Green Machine
Favorite Quote: Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
Elya Slater
Year: Junior
Major: Social Work
Year in SAC: 3
Best experience in SAC:
Favorite Quote:
Emily Wilson
Year: Junior
Major: German and business
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: Retreat at Beaver Meadows
Favorite Quote:
Erika Taylor
Year: Junior
Major: Chemistry
Year in SAC: 3
Best Experience in SAC: CU Game 2006
Favorite Quote: Don’t expect to keep doing the same things the same way, and expecting a different result.
Francesca “Franke” Gentile
Year: Freshman
Major: open option seeking technical journalism
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: fall retreat at the ropes course when I faced my fear of heights.
Favorite Quote: Say what you feel because those who mind won’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Garrett Breitbarth
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: ASAP conference in OHIO!
Favorite Quote: “Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest, faster man but sometimes the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
Jessica Leonowicz
Year: Freshman
Major: Human Developmental Sciences; Family and consumer science; Psychology
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Ropes Course
Favorite Quote: The purpose of life is a life of purpose
Joseph Garcia
Year: Freshman
Major: Business Administration
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: I just started
Favorite Quote: Try, Try, Try again
Kelsey Thornton
Year: Freshman
Major: Human development and family studies
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Homecoming pancake breakfast
Favorite Quote:
Kenny Ivie
Year: Freshman
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: meeting all of the new people at the retreat and sledding
Favorite Quote: I live for the nights that turn into mornings and the friends that turn into family
Lacy Miller
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology
Year in SAC: 3
Best Experience in SAC: Etiquette Dinner Fashion show sophomore year
Favorite Quote: If we weren’t all crazy, we’d all go insane
Lauren Ives
Year: Freshman
Major: Construction Management
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Cheering at the Green Machine games
Favorite Quote: “ you will never get this!”
Michelle Stout
Year: Freshman
Major: Health and exercise science
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Getting to know everyone
Favorite Quote: Live, Laugh, love
Phillip “Phil” Riggs
Year: Senior
Major: Business Management
Year in SAC: 1
Best Experience in SAC: Spring retreat
Favorite Quote:
Reid Thornton
Year: Sophomore
Major: Math
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC: Pancake breakfast
Favorite Quote: Joy is a very enduring quality, if it ever flies over you, id does change you forever
Sarah Hubbard
Year: Senior
Major: Marketing
Year in SAC: 2
Best Experience in SAC:
Favorite Quote:
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