Seniors Paint Parking Spots for Fundraiser

By Madison Clayton
    This year vibrant, colorful and artistic paintings occupy 40 senior parking spots art Wall High School, allowing students to customize their very own parking spot in the senior lot.
    Last year Senior Class President Dave Roberts and Junior Class President Alex Longo came up with a fundraising idea to have customized parking spots in the senior lot. The custom parking spot option was presented this year to the senior class in July through an email from assistant principal Mrs. Kristen Scott. The price of each parking spot was $40 and a maximum of 60 spots were available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The students interested in partaking in the fundraiser had to send in their design for approval. Once approved, they were given specific days for which they could go and paint their spot. The Class of 2019 raised $1,600.
     “Last season during track Alex and I noticed that a couple of other schools had their parking lots painted,” Roberts explained. “We found out that these were senior class spots and thought, what a great idea, we should do that at Wall.”
​      The student advisory committee, senior Courtney Carduner specifically, presented the idea to Mrs. Scott for students to purchase spots and design them. Mrs. Scott approved the idea and set the price.
       “There were a couple of hurdles, but everyone was on board,” Mrs. Scott said. “We have had no problems so far. I really feel that because the students paid and painted the spots themselves it really shows peer-on-peer respect.”
       “A reason why I wanted to paint a parking spot was because I knew it would be easier to reserve one than to find one every morning. It saves me time in the morning from driving around, searching for a spot.” said Cate Pasterchick who painted a parking spot.
     “I feel like the fundraiser was a total success,” Roberts said. “We plan on this becoming a tradition at Wall, with the underclassman designing their own spots one day.”
      For the future Mrs. Scott said she intends to keep the idea and is open to the possibility of expanding it to the junior lot.

Pictured here is one of 60 painted senior parking spots at Wall High School.