36 Seniors Will Compete for Class Marshal Positions

Thirty-six members of the Class of 2018 declared their candidacy for senior class marshal, the Harvard Alumni Association announced on Tuesday.

The Senior Class Committee serves as the representatives of their class, plan the Class Day exercises for May, solicit donations from their classmates for the annual Senior Gift fund, and plan a series of social events for their class. The two candidates that receive the most votes will become the first and second marshal, respectively, and all seniors are eligible to vote.

Last September, 33 candidates jockeyed for marshal positions in the Class of 2017 representing a number roughly equal to the current candidate pool, but marking a decline from previous years. Prior election cycles had seen around 50 seniors competing for marshal positions.

Senior class marshal Bob Wu '15 gives a thumbs up as the 2015 class marshals pose for photographs in the Yard before the Baccalaureate Service on May 26. By Madeline R. Lear

This year, the candidates hail from all of the undergraduate Houses, with the exception of Dunster. Cabot has the most candidates at six, and several of the marshal candidates also serve as chairs of their House Committee. Some of the candidates have also served on the Undergraduate Council.

In addition to the first and second marshals, seniors will elect six program marshals from the same pool of candidates. The six highest vote earners from the final round, after the first and second marshals, will become the program marshals.

The Harvard Alumni Association will conduct a first round of voting for senior class marshals on September 25, with a final round on September 27. Both rounds of voting will close at 11:59 p.m.

The candidates ranked in the top 16 will move on to the final round. The results of the election, along with the appointment of gift marshals—who oversee donations to the Senior Gift fund—will be announced to the Class of 2018 on September 29.

Other members of the senior class committee, including gift marshals, will be appointed following interview processes.

The Senior Gift funds a variety of College initiatives, such as athletics, financial aid, and House life. In previous years, student donors have had the ability to choose whether their money will be placed into an unrestricted fund for the College or will be directly contributed to financial aid programs.

The following seniors have applied to run for the first, second, and program marshal positions on the Senior Class Committee:

Berkeley Brown (Lowell)

Anthony X. Chen (Cabot)

Katherine J. Cohen (Winthrop), a former Crimson Blog chair

Flavia Cuervo (Lowell)

Aridenne A. Dews (Winthrop), a Crimson Multimedia editor

Salman E. Haque (Cabot)

Kylie Hung (Mather)

Stephanie M. Johnson (Cabot)

Michelle L. Kim (Quincy)

Marko Kostich (Pforzheimer)

Charles S. Krumholz (Eliot)

Belle Lee (Leverett)

Taylor P. Li (Currier)

Kayla A. McGarrell (Cabot)

Leonard C. Murphy (Mather)

Camille N’Diaye-Muller (Leverett)

Jessika S. Nebrat (Quincy)

Jerry G. Nelluvelil (Quincy)

Karen-Alexandra Nogues (Currier)

William Oh (Currier)

Benjamin K. Ohno (Adams)

Ian T. Power (Adams)

Caroline N. Rakus-Wojciechowski (Eliot)

Alexander K. Reed (Leverett)

Wyatt M. Robertson (Quincy)

Michael J. Sanky (Lowell)

Peyten M. Sharp (Kirkland)

Nina C. Srivastava (Mather)

Madeleine H. Stern (Winthrop)

Sara S. Surani (Kirkland)

Jerry Tang (Cabot)

Rajet Vatsa (Cabot)

Lucy Xu (Quincy)

Christina Zeina (Eliot)

Amy Y. Zhang (Kirkland)

Yehong Zhu (Mather), an inactive Crimson FM editor

—Staff writer Kenton K. Shimozaki can be reached at kenton.shimozaki@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @KentonShimozaki.