The Recreation Council Becomes a Recognized Student Organization

The Council is Highly Active and Visible Compared to Years Prior

The Recreation Center’s (Rec Center) student employee voice is represented by the Recreation Council (the Council), a board that became recognized as a Cleveland State University student organization November 2011. The Council’s purpose is to act as a liaison between the Rec Center’s professional and student staff, to support the Rec Center’s student employees and to create unity among the Rec Center’s employees.

Robin Wallace serves as president and vice president, Dynesha Stover-McDonald serves as secretary and treasurer and Bob Holub serves as the organization’s faculty advisor. The marketing and community service positions remain vacant as interviews are being conducted to fill them.

Although the Council has been an entity of the Rec Center in previous years, the current board took action to make it a recognized student organization so it would receive funding from Cleveland State University’s Student Life Department. With that funding, the Council is able to create special events and fundraising opportunities. Fundraising abilities are especially important to the Council because one of its biggest functions is to provide substantial funding to the Rec Center’s end-of-the-year employee banquet and awards ceremony.

Since the start of the Fall 2011 semester, the Council has coordinated The Annual Turkey Feast and was the brain child of new events, the Rec Basketball Tournament and the Staff Volleyball Competition. The student employees paid $1 to participate in these games and all proceeds benefitted the employee banquet fund.

The Annual Turkey Feast had a new addition this year, Pie a Pro-Staff Member or Facilities Manager. For $1, the student employees had the opportunity to plant a pie in the face of their choosing. Proceeds from this highly attended event benefitted the Cleveland Foodbank as well as the employee banquet fund.

Other Council-created events, including Get Found (hide and seek) and the Finals-Week Breakfast, were offered at no cost as their only function was to create fun and offer support for the student employees.

Each Christmas season, the Council holds a food drive to benefit the Cleveland Foodbank as well. “Helping Cleveland families is important, especially this time of year. Everyone deserves to have a merry Christmas and a hot meal,” said Dynesha Stover-McDonald.

Please send questions and/or comments to get_fit_21@yahoo.com, or call Bob Holub at 216-8012-3257.