SAN JOSE, CALIF.—This school year, Silver Creek High’s memorable events are heavily influenced and executed by Jenny Thach, the behind the scenes sensation and Class of 2025’s secretary.

The job of a secretary is to communicate with all the classes from freshmen to seniors; also playing as a role model for underclassmen to help them familiarize themselves with organizing events. Simultaneously, Thach maintains school events and clubs, promotes class hype, manages emails and oversees the logistics for the senior class. 

As a 2025 officer, she’s also responsible for not just the schoolwide events, but also the senior-only occasions—such as Prom and Senior Barbeque, that require a high demand of fundraising—done by senior merchandise and selling $1 chocolate around campus.

Due to her freshman and sophomore involvement, Thach was already experienced as a secretary. In her junior year, she switched reins to an event commissioner. But she soon realized secretary was something that suited her much more, leading her to run again in her senior year.

Despite the secretary’s role demanding long hours after school to organize and prepare for her school’s events, Thach says,“It’s that hype and proudness that you have with the final product. You see your final aftermath and see your whole class be happy. It’s like ‘wow, I did that’.”

Almost a semester in the school year, Thach calls her experience in the role as adventurous.

“Since we all know it’s our last year, we wanna do everything we want to do—with no regrets. It’s something fun, exciting, but also a little risky.”

So far Thach highlights Nonfire, one of Creek’s annual performances, as one of her best memories as secretary. During the last dance of the night, there was a heartfelt moment of balloons floating away to symbolize the seniors’ final year and their upcoming departure from high school.

“It made me really realize that it’s my final year, but it also made me so happy to see everyone else happy.”

She also underlined the Welcome Back Rally and despite the preparation time being cut short by two weeks in comparison to previous years, Thach and the officers adjusted well. She enjoyed the positivity and cooperation involved with all the classes.

“It used to be really competitive for the past few years. Where the classes would not help each other, instead they would ruin each other’s props and be against each other. But like this dynamic we [the senior class] have built over the years, we help out each other now.”

However, Thach is not just a secretary, who primarily works on fun hands-on activities, but is firstly a student. Thach emphasizes during this first semester, it has been a struggle to balance her studies, write her college applications, and to be involved in big projects like Nonfire. Typically, during preparation for plans like Nonfire, Thach and other participants work after school at one of the students’ houses to design and paint backdrops. However, usually she would have piles of work waiting to be done when she arrives home late at night.

Despite sacrifices of Thach’s sleep, she still looks forward to Fantastics—another yearly tradition Creek offers. “Fantastics is officially the last event for us [seniors] to pull out. And it’s known to be two times bigger and with much more decoration.”

In the future, Thach wishes for Class of 2025 related itineraries to be done sooner rather than later. However, she acknowledges that even though procrastination frequently occurs, she and the officers are confident in their ability to get things done on time—even if it turns out to be last minute.

In relation to the classes, she also hopes to see more promotion for people to participate more in these Class of 2025 events. Thach adds, “It’s a huge problem that we only have these specific people repeating and joining events, but since it’s our last year we want everyone to come in.”

Overall, Thach advises those who are interested in partaking in an officer position to learn how to master time management. But on top of that, “you have to be prepared for people who are not going to value your work.” 

“When people go to our events, they’re not going to realize how much effort you put into this, so always be proud of yourself. Don’t always rely on how people react to your event, what matters is how you look at yourself and how much work you put into it.”