{"id":7890,"date":"2018-05-30T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=7890"},"modified":"2018-05-30T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:01:06","slug":"bringing-senior-prom-to-the-monmouth-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/bringing-senior-prom-to-the-monmouth-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing senior prom to the Monmouth community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Dunaway | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

Sparkling prom dresses and classy tuxedos paid a visit to the Monmouth Senior Center on May 26. The second annual sock hop, hosted by Western\u2019s Psychology Club and Gerontology Club, gave seniors the opportunity to dress up and hit the dance floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The theme for this year\u2019s dance was \u2018Spring Fling Senior Prom,\u2019 encouraging community members to break out their prom attire and join in on the fun. Of course, a prom is incomplete without the crowning of prom king and queen, as well as tiaras and crowns for the winners.<\/span><\/p>\n

Haley Morris, Psychology Club president, was involved in planning the Valentine\u2019s Day sock hop in 2017. The organization was looking to get more involved with the senior center and jumped at the opportunity to help the Monmouth community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s cool getting more college students in the community and not just on campus,\u201d Morris commented. She explained that many students go through college focusing on how their education will benefit themselves and not necessarily how they can help others. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they see Monmouth as being pretty small and they don\u2019t see a way of benefiting the community, but there\u2019s a lot of different ways that people can reach out and the senior center is one of those ways,\u201d said Morris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s sock hop was such a success that the Gerontology Club decided to get involved in the event. Lila Gardner, co-president of the Gerontology Club at Western, is a gerontology major, herself, and has always enjoyed working with older adults. When elected president of the club, she had several goals that she wanted the organization to accomplish.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted us to be really involved with the Monmouth community,\u201d Gardner explained. The club hosted Careers in Aging Week in April and several events educating the community about aging and working with older adults. Since then, the organization has been focused on outreaching to the Monmouth community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis term has been really focused on interacting with our older aging community and really making sure that we\u2019re creating a better quality of life,\u201d said Gardner. \u201cThere\u2019s some places in Oregon that doesn\u2019t have a senior center and (don\u2019t) focus on quality of life for older adults and that\u2019s something I think our club officers are really adamant about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The sock hop is just one way that the Psychology and Gerontology Clubs are reaching out and using their fields of study to benefit the community. <\/span><\/p>\n

Morris expressed, \u201cI think it\u2019s becoming a community event and people are looking forward to it so I really hope it continues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at journalnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by: Paul F. Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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