Stephanie Dulany

My Vision Statement:
There are things that I want in life, things that make me happy, things that I do well, and even my weaknesses. My vision statement is going to explain my life in a couple of sentences, providing key qualities that make me as a person. I will begin with my weaknesses because we all have them. Mine include a few literal things such as writing and not being able to whistle, but with a few more personal things like not having much self-controlling, letting things get the best of me, and even procrastination. These are things that I need to look more closely into and figure out how to turn them into my strengths. Things that I do well include playing sports, especially dancing, drawing, and just caring about others. Everyone who is around me would say that I am a very lovable person and they can tell that I actually care. Things in life that make me happy include caring for others, especially my boyfriend. My boyfriend in general makes me happy, especially knowing that we may be getting engaged and married soon. One more thing that makes me happy are dogs. There is not a dog in the world that I could hate; it's just how I am. Things that I desire to have in life include wanting to travel, have a job that gives me great income AND that I love, and having a happy family. I never want to be divorced, and I want to have the world's best children. I want to be their soccer mom, take them to dance practice, help them with their homework, everything. All of these aspects make up who I am as a person, and, frankly, I am satisfied with them.

Delaney Sweeney

My SMART goal relates to the goal area because it is educational, social, recreational, and professional. It is education because we are teaching students about water pollution; something they might not know a lot about at this time. It is social because we are interacting with different groups of students and adults. It is recreational because it relates to water, which many people use as a recreational object for boating, fishing, etc, and it is professional because we have to be responsible. We have to teach other students and many of them might look up to us for directions and advise; we have to be professional and organized because we are doing this project on our own. It's up to us how successful we are.

Stephanie Dulany

It is important to set goals, not only for your career, but for your whole life ambitions. I have my own goals that I try to achieve in life, as well. Before yesterday I was pretty adamant about my goals for my career. I had the exact idea that I would like to become a Physician’s Assistant, however, yesterday I just got the idea of becoming a Dental Hygienist. I explain this because I can show how often and easily goals can change. As for my goals in general, I would like a job that offers me good 9:00-5:00 hours, Monday-Friday so that I can have my evenings, weekends, and holidays off to spend with my family; but I would still like a career in the medical field somehow. I have other goals in mind for my life as well, though. I would like to get married in the next couple of years. I would like to be able to get a job right after I finish whatever education I am in at the time. After a few years of work, I would like to, hopefully, have enough money to start a family. My goals get pretty specific when I say that I would like to have 2 children, along with land and a nice farm house on it. However, my most important goal that I want in life is to stay married and live a long, happy life with my husband, so that my children do not grow up in a broken home like I did. Goals are good for a person to have because they give you something to strive for. When you finally achieve those goals, there is a great amount of satisfaction that comes with the happiness you get when your goals, years ago, finally turned into reality.

Stephanie Dulany

We have begun to break this project down into steps in order to better organize the project. We are using the strategy SMART which stands for strategic, measurable, attainable, reachable, and timeline. My strategy is to obtain more outer resources which may allow us to include our water safety skills with their company. If we could reach out to more companies, we will have an easier, and more attainable, means of providing ourselves, and the children, with more options for water safety practice. “Measurable” calls for a realistic plan that we can seek out, and usually involves an amount of money, people, or anything else. This project would call for a certain amount of people involved in order to teach water safety. I will strive to connect with two additional companies that would allow us to cooperate with them in order to promote water safety. It is attainable if we can give them incentives for allowing us to work with them. I can trade their time that they let us work with them, with some of our time used to benefit their company. This goal is reachable along with the timeline if we can achieve this goal by the beginning of next semester. This way we can work alongside them for the entire next semester, giving us more community service opportunities.

Abby Williams

I have several goals set for myself in life.  It is very important to me that I meet these goals to be successful in life.  I hope to do well in school and go on to further my degree and become a nurse practitioner.  I would then like to work in a practice with my friend who is becoming a doctor.  I hope to enjoy my job as a nurse practitioner while still having time for my family and keeping them and God first in my life. 

Heather Wharton

Doing well in school and in life is very important to me.  It is very important that I enjoy my job.  My goal is to study to be a physical therapist and graduate from Drury and physical therapy school.  I want to run my own clinic on the western coast of the United States. 

Delaney Sweeney

My SMART goal for our project is to
Specify: coordinate a classroom presentation and mini clean up with the boys and girls club at stalnacker.
Measureable: I want to create one classroom time and one mini clean up.
Attainable: I will be able to do this by contacting the boys and girls club and speaking with the people in charge to set up this project.
Realistic: This is a realistic project because we have already attended a lake clean up and we have all the materials we need for the classroom lectures.
Timely: We will plan this classroom lecture and lake clean up before December 9th, 2011.

Abby Williams

We were instructed to create a SMART goal to meet these criteria: Strategic, Measurable, Attainable, Reachable, and Timeline. My goal is to speak with Dr. Carroll and other teachers that teach subjects relating to ecology or our natural environment.  I think it would be a great to get these classes involved in our Spring lake-cleanup.  Teachers could encourage students to participate by possibly offering bonus points or strongly recommending this opportunity.  We could create t-shirts for participants and sit in the commons or CX as well as hanging up signs to encourage students to sign-up.  If more students signed up it would be an excellent opportunity to share the importance of Project Aware with more people.  It would also be useful to have more adults with us on our clean up so that each child from the girl scout group or any other group would have someone to partner with.  This way we can use our time more efficiently and get more accomplished.

Heather Wharton

SMART Goal

I want to coordinate our lake clean up in March with the 4H group and Girl Scouts.  I hope to have Smart Mob volunteer so that each child will have a Drury Student as a buddy to clean up the shores of the lake with.  I want this project to be coordinated by the end of March 2012.

Stephanie Dulany

In the next few weeks that we have left in the semester, I really hope to fulfill my hours needed. We are awaiting the reply of a group of ours involved in this project, and, if they approve, we may be able to have another cleanup day which will help with my hours needed. In a project like ours, it is difficult to get hours here and there, because we have a few days that will take care of all of our hours. I am going to work towards taking separate trips to the rivers and lakes and cleaning them up. In this weather, it's also difficult to get children out to come help us for fear of them catching a cold.

More importantly, I hope to feel like I accomplished what I wanted to at the end of the semester. I do not like leaving things undone, so, I hope that I can feel positive about the experience by the end of the semester; and I will be ready to start the next semester after that.

Heather Wharton

In the remaining weeks of the semester I hope to find a project we can do to finish our hours (The Boys and Girls Club).  I also hope we find dates for teaching the 4H group and the girl scouts for next semester.  They will have a combined lake clean up.  I also hope to start brainstorming on how we can expand our project through Drury.  I also hope to meet with our advisor so she can help brainstorm.

Abby Williams

For the remaining weeks of this semester I hope to meet with some local organizations such as the Boys and Girls clubs to present the importance of clean waterways.  Stephanie and I were scheduled to meet with a 4H group to set up a presentation and work day with that group.  They have decided they would like to wait until the Spring now so this semester has been a bit of a struggle to get our hours so far.  I have no doubt we will get all of our hours in but we will most likely spend it in classrooms or teaching groups instead of actually cleaning up lakes and streams because of the weather.  I look forward to getting back in the lake in the Spring to clean up.

Delaney Sweeney

For the remaining week of the semester, I hope to coordinate our project with either the Boys and Girls Club in town or the Watershed Committee. I talked to the educational director of the Watershed Committee today and we are trying to work out some hours that we can volunteer there. This week has been kind of frustrating with our project because those that committeed to this fall are wanting to wait til the spring now because of the weather. This is causing us to have to come up with additional volunteer hours that we didn't plan on before. I look forward to getting all the details worked out and getting our project ready for the hardwork and hours we will put in next semester.

Delaney Sweeney

Currently, I am working on trying to set up a meeting with the Boys and Girls Club here in Springfield to work with us on our project. I hope to go to one (or all three) of their facilities in town and teach the members the class we have set up. We will discuss water quality and pollution problems and will have an interactive activity to help them grasp the concept in a real life situation.

Smart Mob-Delaney Sweeney

I was unable to attend the SmartMob on their trip to Joplin, but to make this up I will attend Drury Dance Marathon on November 11, 2011. I am actually partially in charge of Drury Dance Marathon. I am the media and marketing chair. I have set up several television interviews promoting this event and I have also worked on t-shirt designs and special promos around campus. I am very excited for this event. All proceeds will help benefit Children's Miracle Network.

Smart Mob - Stephanie Dulany

On October 24 2011, me and around 150 other students met on a bus around 1:00 in the afternoon and left for Joplin. I think that most of us were a bit nervous for the work we were about to do, and it seemed that none of us knew what to expect when we were down there working. Some had not even seen Joplin after the horrible tornados, and this was my first time as well seeing the damage done to the city of Joplin. After driving through the worst, damaged part of Joplin, we arrived at the park site where we were going to lay sod. The scene was pretty bare, with some stone walls built on a mass of just dirt on the ground. We were going to fill the entire dirt plot with sod, and it seemed like a big job. However, once we started working, we realized just how awesome it was to have had 150 volunteers helping with this cause because the work got done faster than anyone thought. We had laid sod for about an hour and a half and we were done. After that, we moved up to the playground where other volunteers were working, and we helped to rake, shovel, and lay sod there as well. Michael from The Extreme Makeover met us there and got some really good filming shots for the show of the work that we had done. After all of our work was done, we were able to actually walk to the row of 7 houses that were being built for the show and see the progress made. I began the trip wondering how anyone could accomplish building 7 houses in a week, but after seeing how many volunteers there were, the job was obviously going to be done in time. The best thing I took away from this experience was knowing just how important every person that volunteers is. If no one helps with the volunteering, big jobs, like 7 houses being built in a week, would go undone.

Smart Mob- Heather Wharton

         The Drury Smart Mob traveled with 150 students to Joplin, Missouri to help build a park the architecture students designed.  We laid down sod  throughout the park for a few hours.  It was amazing how much work we had finished in such little time.  I felt very helpful and accomplished to be a part of such a project.  I hope the Joplin residents enjoy their newly rebuilt park.  The architecture students did an amazing job.  I loved the tribute they made to honor those who have passed and the struggles the living face due to the Joplin tornado.  For our summit project we are trying to contact a girl scout troup to teach them the importance of clean water.  Next semester, will will meet with the 4H kids and have a lake clean up.

Drury SmartMob-Abby Williams

On Monday about 150 students including the Summit Park residents participated in Drury University's first ever "SmartMob." I wasn't sure what to expect at first other than that a smartmob meant a group of people were going to show up and volunteer our time doing whatever is needed.  Upon arrival we received our instructions, we would be helping with a new memorial park. In conjunction with the Extreme Makeover Home Edition seven-in-seven project, third-year architecture students from Drury were given the opportunity to design and build a park in honor of all the volunteers that helped with tornado clean up from the minutes after the storm, through the months following.  The Drury Smart Mob helped lay sod and clean up the area around the park and the adjacent playground.  It was a very humbling experience to be able to help out.  The park is beautiful and I think it will be a great area for survivors to count there blessings, reflect on the experiences, and remember those lost.  It is also a great place for volunteers to see how much their time and help is appreciated, and so much could not have been accomplished without their generosity.  It was a great volunteer experience to be able to help out with this project, and I felt honored! Tune in for Extreme Makeover Home Edition in late January 2012 and look for the Drury SmartMob and the park!

Stephanie Dulany

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Heather Wharton

"With great privelege, comes great responsibility"

Abby Williams

The quote that I chose is by John F. Kennedy: "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

Delaney Sweeney

Leadership Quote

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
-Warren G. Bennis

Delaney Sweeney

We have been working on meeting with the 4H group this month to work out our schedules and decide who can help with our polar bear dip. We want to get the older 4H members involved in our project so that they can help out when we teach the class to the elementary aged students.

Stephanie Dulany

This school year I had the option to choose to live in a variety of places. Summit Park Leadership was one of them and it offered me the opportunity to become a leader in a community service project that affects our local Ozarks. A nice perk that came with the housing was that it was, in fact, a miniature house with bedrooms, bathrooms, a living room, kitchen, and a washer/dryer setup. These amenities appealed to me, alongside the hours of community service that I could log and put into my resume for post-bachelor schools. At first, I loved the idea of being in my very own "house" with a kitchen and everything, but, as the days moved on, those things dwindled away and were no longer as new and exciting. However, I now have the responsibility of fulfilling my application requirements that let me into this program, which involve spending a certain amount of hours with kids teaching them the importance of having clean water. I can see now that these things really appeal to me more than the idea of having my own kitchen and washer and dryer. I have the opportunity to physically take part in a project that helps out, not only myself, but our entire Ozark area. The need for clean water is not stressed nearly enough these days, and we, as a group, are taking it upon ourselves to teach as many younger kids as possible the importance of having clean water. We want to take kids on fieldtrips to the lake and have them do fun activities that gear towards why the Earth needs clean water. I hope to gain more community service experience for our local area, and I hope to make a good impression towards these kids. My personal goal is to make their learning fun, but also educational, so that they will take what they learned to their parents and tell them all about their experiences. Everyone knows that we need clean water to make the world go around, just not enough people care, or act on that need. This is what I hope to change.

Abby Williams

I chose to live in Summit Park because I saw it as an excellent opportunity to become involved in my community.  Our group works with an organization called "Project Aware," which promotes the importance of clean water through education and involvement.  By living in this environment and volunteering with this group I hope we can make a difference and share the importance of keeping our waterways clean.  Our group volunteered in Arkansas to participate in a clean up project, and we have another clean up planned as well.  We also plan to work with local 4H and Girl Scout organizations in the Springfield area.  I hope to gain leadership and volunteer experience, make a difference in our community, and get to know everyone in the Summit Park Leadership Organization a little better.  I look forward to working on our project throughout the year.

Heather Wharton

I chose to live in Summit Park because I wanted to be more involved in community service.  I hope to gain leadership experience and teamwork experience.  All our plans are falling into place.  I helped at the lake clean up in Arkansas, which was a blast!  Taking action made me realize how much I enjoy partnering with Project Aware.

Delaney Sweeney

I chose Summit because it was a great opportunity to continue my community service. I have always been involved in community service projects and when I heard about this, it was perfect! I know I will gain a lot from this experience. I will gain leadership and organizational skills. I will also gain cooperative learning skills because we all have to work together to make this project work.
-Delaney Sweeney

Summit Project 2011-2012

We are students at Drury University who are partnering with the Project Aware Foundation to live in Summit Park for 2011-2012.  The Foundation conserves underwater environments through education, advocacy, and action.  We chose to live in Summit Park because we wanted to be involved in an organization that Drury wasn't a part of.  We plan on contributing to the foundations efforts by educating a 4H group and volunteering at lake clean ups.  Our goals are to gain volunteers from Drury to attend our lake clean ups and gain leadership experience.  My water, my responsibility!

So for we have volunteered in Arkansas, at the Norfork Lake's annual clean up.  They provide boats and food at no cost! We went scuba diving and picked up trash at the bottom of the lake.  It was a fun and great way to help keep our water clean! We look forward to educating the 4H group and having a lake clean up of our own!