On Oct. 19, Del Mar High School held its annual homecoming dance. The murder mystery-themed dance occurred in the gym from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The theme was decided by a student body vote at orientation. The options students could choose from were decided earlier in May. Planning for homecoming festivities began in late August according to the Associated Student Body Senior Vice President Lukas Nguyen.
Nguyen explained that three ASB members took the lead, with the rest of the executives supporting. The rest of the class assisted in the process.
Nguyen went on to explain some challenges in organizing the dance.
“The hardest part about planning a dance, especially homecoming, is deciding what DJ to buy, what photo booth to get, things like that,” he said. “The rest of it is pretty easy. You decide on decorations, you decide whether or not you want to purchase them, or whether or not you want to make them. In our case, we’ve made some decorations, and we’ve purchased some decorations,” Nguyen stated.
He continued, “The hardest part, I think, for them, was communication—being able to communicate with DJs and photo booths and PTSA. Just that communication back and forth. But they’ve done a great job in communicating with them.”
Following the dance, we spoke with Del Mar High School’s Activities Director Stacie Gardner about the profit made at homecoming.
Gardner said, “The total ticket sale was 409 tickets with the total revenue being $7376, and the total profit was $4876.”
There were complications regarding the advertisement for homecoming this year as most was done online.
“We struggled to make a lot of posters for homecoming because there was a lot going on right before it. We had Think Pink Week, and then right before Think Pink Week, we had some stuff in September. So it is definitely much harder to advertise something when it’s in succession of something else,” Nguyen said.
We spoke with ASB member Madison Rock about what it was like to prepare for the dance.
“We made backdrop posters, decor, advertisement posters, etc,” Rock said.
When asked about the time she put into the dance, Rock stated, “We were preparing about two weeks before during our first period and two Saturdays for extra time.”
Many students are unaware of the extensive planning and effort that goes on behind the scenes to create a dance with the scale of homecoming. There are numerous factors that all have to work in unison with one another for the event to be successful.
Gardner states, “I think it was a successful fun event.”
