{"id":11790,"date":"2020-03-16T11:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:19:43","slug":"february-student-of-the-month-kayla-schimpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/11790","title":{"rendered":"February Student of the Month: Kayla Schimpf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Mari Pizzini–<\/strong>Morningside College\u2019s chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) selected Kayla Schimpf as February\u2019s student of the month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schimpf is currently the president of the PreProfessional Health Club, secretary of the Chemistry Club, and a member of Beta Beta Beta. Additionally, she has helped Pastor Andy Nelson and Professor Anni Moore create and facilitate \u201cDeath Over Dinner\u201d events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe stumbled across the book Let’s Talk About Death Over Dinner <\/em>and thought it would be a good idea to bring it to campus,\u201d Schimpf said about her and Nelson. \u201cMortality is a weird thing and it\u2019s interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three dinners have already been held on campus, with the latest one occurring in early March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hope there is more awareness of your own mortality,\u201d Schimpf said. \u201cDeath is a thing that happens to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from \u201cDeath Over Dinner\u201d events, Schimpf is a large part of organizing other on-campus activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKayla participates in a lot of bake sales for natural disasters through the Pre-professional Health Club,\u201d said Schimpf’s roommate, Kit Stallmann. Stallmann continued by saying that her engagement in these activities shows how much she cares about her peers. \u201cShe is always wanting to help anyone who is hurting.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schimpf finished saying, \u201cI think [getting involved] has made me more confident. I used to be really shy and I didn\u2019t like talking to people. I am now more confident while speaking in groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student of the Month is awarded to a Morningside student who shows dedication to the college through their involvement both on campus and off. Students are nominated by peers in ODK and cannot be a member of the chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mari Pizzini–Morningside College\u2019s chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) selected Kayla Schimpf as February\u2019s student of the month.  Schimpf is currently the president of the PreProfessional Health Club, secretary of the Chemistry Club, and a member of Beta Beta Beta. Additionally, she has helped Pastor Andy Nelson and Professor Anni Moore create and facilitate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":11792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[46880,46935,6119],"class_list":["post-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-msidelife","tag-msideproud","tag-morningside-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11799,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions\/11799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}