Creative costumes filled the hallways throughout the week of Oct. 23-27, which marked CHS student’s calendars as the annual fall Spirit Week. The event, which typically leads up to Halloween, was moved so that its last day coincided with the Halloween Dance. This year, Spirit Week and the Halloween Dance were organized by Forum Council. Morgan McClease, co-president of Forum Council, helped plan the event.
“There was a whole committee dedicated to spirit week,” McClease said. “The spirit week committee created a list of a bunch of possible spirit week days and then all of forum council voted on it.”
Addi Hinesman, vice president of Forum Council, led the spirit week committee and organized google forms for the entirety of Forum Council to fill out. After the vote, leadership, which is composed of Forum Council’s co-presidents, vice president, secretary and treasurer, analyzed the results of the form and chose the five most popular themes, which were then assigned to each day of the week.
Hannah Crabtree puts on their wig for “Barbie Vs. Ken Day.” They dressed up “Malibu Business Barbie. “I like to go hard for spirit week because it helps shake things up in a fun way,“ Crabtree said. “I really like how many people participate at Community.”
The final line up had students swaddled up in pajamas on Monday, slinging “Anything But A Backpack” on Tuesday, dressed as Barbie or Ken on Wednesday, costumed by Forum on Thursday and wearing clothes from a certain decade by grade on Friday. The following Tuesday, Halloween, students wore their own costumes to show off their holiday spirit.
Parker Haymart, CHS senior, participated in all of spirit week but was especially excited to dress as “Beach Ken” on Wednesday. He wore a flower patterned shirt, striped shorts and sunglasses to emulate the character.
Haymart has tried to participate and soak in each day since this will be his last spirit week at CHS.
For anything but a backpack day, Haymart stuffed his notebooks and school supplies into a treasure chest which he carried around from class to class. He and his peers in the Brent Forum decided to collectively dress up as pirates for Forum Costume Day. On Thursday, he showed up to school with an eye patch and bandana similar to his fellow forumettes.
“As a senior, it’s a really fun last hurrah to do these things and dress up and show your silly side in our school,” Haymart said.
As Haymart realized that it could be his last Spirit Week ever, he began to feel sad that his time at CHS is gradually coming to a close. Nevertheless, he is excited for the possibility of a senior Spirit Week that Forum Council could potentially host in the Spring.
“It would be a really fun, nice way to end the year with the second spirit week like Forum Council did last year, so fingers crossed for that,” Haymart said.
Forum Council co-presidents considered this year’s fall Spirit Week to be a success. They hope that the tradition is continued in the future as a way to promote bonding
A trio of CHS freshmen dress up for Pajama Day. Lee Greenberg (right), wore matching patterned pajama pants with her friends. “Though not nearly enough people participated in Decades Day, it was amazing for the people who did participate,” Greenberg said.
