Tri-Ship announced Junior Logan Weaver as their presidential elect for the next school year.

Weaver won over his peers with his ideas for how to make the club’s two main fundraisers, the tree sale and the canned food drive, more successful.

“I want to put flyers in small businesses to spread the word about how our tree sale is different than others, such as that all our profits go to the Tri-Ship fund,” said Weaver. 

“For the canned food drive I want to put tip jars and containers in grocery stores to get the community to donate as much as the school does.”

Tri-Ship’s fund provides scholarships that New Trier students are able to apply for, and is given out based on merit and need.

Apart from the Christmas Tree sale, the club raises money through selling steaks at football games and other small fundraisers.

As President, Weaver’s job is to do much of the behind the scenes work for the club.

“As President, I’ll  focus more on the club operations like creating the applications and interviewing Freshmen, keeping everyone organized, and communicating with the sponsors and board members,” explained Weaver. “It’s helped me in different ways than I expected.”

Each year Tri-Ship’s board and officers head to the Northfield campus to interview hopeful candidates. While it is offered at Northfield, the two campuses are not closely related and members must apply to stay in the club at the Winnetka campus.

The club is the oldest leadership for boys at New Trier, and continues to stay popular. This year there are 35 freshman, much more than usual, vying for the roughly 12-14 spots available.

The process can be very tough, explained Weaver.

“We only have time to interview each student for 5 minutes. We look for the best kids for the club, and it’s hard to narrow it down when there’s so many good guys, but we do our best.”

Weaver has built up a reputation in the club for doing his best. Junior club member Jack Armstrong attested “Logan is the kind of guy people want to follow. He’s got an incredible balance of drive and friendliness.”

Spencer Boehm,  junior and three year member of Tri-Ship, complemented Weaver’s “tremendous work ethic, great leadership, and willingness to do anything it takes to improve both Tri-Ship and New Trier.”

Weaver earned some of that praise this past year as junior class chair of Tri-Ship.

“This year I’ve worked under current President, Wilson MacRitchie, and he taught me a lot of the day to day work. I was lucky enough to be enrolled in the Activities Leadership Seminar, as well, and I learned a lot each week from meeting with our activities director and other club leaders,” said Weaver.

The work he has put in up to this point has made next year’s board excited to work alongside him.

According to Connor Rooney, Tri-Ship’s Vice-President elect, “Logan is a natural born leader and more than ready to take on the responsibilities of President.”

Along with MacRitchie, the Weaver was also inspired to run for the position by past president Matt Gallo.

“Ever since I was a freshman I had the the desire to lead and progress the club. I had a great mentor in Matt Gallo who pushed me to pursue it,” recalled Weaver.

Other members elected to board positions for next year were Connor Rooney (Vice-President), Andrew Kost (Secretary), Marc Mestanas (Treasurer), and Charlie Hoban (Junior Class Chair).

Weaver and the rest of the club have large, self imposed goals for next year, and are determined to achieve them.

“I am most worried about not living up to the expectations I have for myself,” said Weaver.