The Oliver Ames ‘Impact Through Christ Club’, previously in room 125 and run by Mrs. Ratcliffe, has struggled with losing members through the years, but has succumbed to discontinuing after the last member has left.
Stacia Rice, the Club Leader and Senior at Oliver Ames, stated that “I have decided to stop doing the club because I feel as though I am unqualified to lead it.”
The predicament of the club is the lack of student members, since any club can be formed as long as one official student member is present. However, since the leaving of Ms. Rice, the club can no longer be registered as an official organization. Further, the following of a limited open forum is needed by the requirements of federal law, which states that religious clubs must be led and conducted by only students, not teachers or administraitors.
Ms. Rice stated that for the time being, “the prayer box will still be there for people who like to use it.”