I was a textile management major
and actually
got involved with textiles on the textile student council
when I was a freshman.
I came to State having been very involved in high school in everything,
sports, student government, every club that you could think of, just like a lot of high school kids,
and coming to State from a small community,
not really knowing much about college,
it was such a big place,
but fortunately the textile school is a very
fostering and encouraging place to be. I really enjoyed my time in textiles
and fortunately got on the textile student council
and started being involved through the textile student council
and had a lot of fun with that.
I mean I certainly didn’t come to State
with the mindset that I was going to run for student body president, although I had always been involved in student government.
hen I was in junior high we didn’t have a normal student government
so we started one and at least for that era I was the first student body president at my junior high school,
really student government, the fraternity, anything that I got involved in
was really an effort to try to make NC State a smaller place.
So I got the opportunity to do the textile student council,
met a ton of people doing that, got to be friends with several people in all different classes,
and that sort of whet my appetite I guess for running
for student body president a couple of years down the line,
but even at that time that wasn’t what I was thinking.