The Farewell Rally and Color Dye-phoon took place on May 15. Traditionally, the last dance of the year was the Luau Dance, but this year Leadership wanted to try something a little different. Claire Wallace, a senior on the Leadership dance committee, says, “In the past the Luau dance has not been as successful, so we are just hoping to rebrand it and we needed some sort of ‘wow’ factor, so we decided to base this off of a color run and Holi festival.”
For the first hour of the Color Dye-phoon, students could buy food from various clubs and play supersized versions of Jenga and Connect Four.
Students then threw colored powder at each other, similar to popular color run events.
The Key Club fundraised the event by allowing students to pay two tickets to pie a teacher in the face. History teacher William Colglazier says, “I’m the Key Club adviser, and this was the way they were raising money. Also I’m chaperoning, so I’m killing two birds with one stone. I chaperoned about five or six years ago and this color dye theme is a lot better.”
Many students agree that the new theme is better. Junior Regina Lisinker says, “A lot of the time for end of the year dances, people tell you not to go because it’s in the gym, but I feel like this year it entertained more people.”
Sophomore Jennifer Macias says, “I didn’t go to the Luau last year, but the color powder was a lot of fun. Next year they should get a larger crowd.”
Freshman Sara Hudson says, “I’ve never done one of these color powder events before, but they should just advertise a lot more next year.”
Some students think this event was one of the best all year. Senior Sienna Williams says, “It’s the best dance I’ve been to in all of the four years of high school, and I only paid $10 for it. I’ve done the color run before and this is better because you don’t run.”
However, freshman Aaron Dasig Aguada says there is still room for improvement. He says, “Next year I think they should have more games to play and they should put up more lights so people can dance more around center court.”
The last dance also served as a way for students to forget about finals and enjoy their last two weeks of school. Sophomore Rebecca Wynn says, “I really liked the color Dye-phoon because it was something I never expected myself doing, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. It was a nice way to hang out with my friends and not have to be reminded about finals coming up.”
Clubs sold food at the event, giving them another opportunity to raise funds. Junior and Cinematix president Jared Mayerson says, “I thought the dance was pretty good. Although Leadership tried to make it so clubs could sell more food by extending it by a half hour. They made a lot of club leaders miss the colored powder.”
As the school year winds down, the last rally included the traditional competition between each class, a traditional Samoan dance and performances from the varsity and junior varsity cheerleaders, dance team and Steel Drum Club. Mayerson says, “I liked that they had the steel drums club playing during the event.It was interesting because I’ve never heard them playing before. It let me see a part of the school, a club, that I’ve never heard anything from before.”
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