MEChA/ALAS Banquet

This year we held our end of the year banquet for MEChA/ALAS at the Latin-American restaurant Arco Iris (literally rainbow in Spanish) in Highland Park, my old neighborhood. Our historian Virginia Parra prepared a slideshow of the years events and we all ate some great food. The event was a joint one with Latino Grad, and so a silent auction was held to raise money for the ceremony. This so-called silent auction got loud, however, when Michelle Angeles had to fight to win her exam prep course. The big part of the night, of course, was the announcement of the new e-board. The emotional ceremony begins with the current e-board lighting up their candles. We then each called up our successor, handed them a new candle and lit it with the flame from ours. This was followed by a short photoshoot of the e-board and seniors, as well as Cristina Franco’s announcement of next year’s Latino Grad committee. All in all, this was a great night and a great way to end out award-winning year.