Pelham Memorial High School Model UN Club successfully held its annual “PelMUNC” (Pelham Model United Nations Conference) at the high school on Saturday. The event brought out nearly one hundred people to either help run or participate in one of the four different committees within the conference and was open to both Pelham delegates and delegations from nearby Model UN programs, such as those from Hackley and Friends Seminary high schools. 

In order to attract participants, the club has been working hard to prepare for the conference for a number of months. In the end, the four committees, although wildly different, were all great successes with the delegates. These committees ranged from covering historical topics such as the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, in which delegates fought for the success of their respective nation after WWI, to more niche historical topics like the Second Punic War between the Romans and the Carthaginians. Even modern fiction stories, like the best-selling Hunger Games series and the viral video game “Plague, Inc.,” drove committees at PelMUNC. 

In theme of the club’s namesake, this year’s PelMUNC continued the tradition of raising money to help with global issues. This year, the club decided to give all donations from delegates to the International Red Cross. The four committees competed to see which could raise the most money, with the winning committee able to “pie” the heads of their committees in the face. At the end of the day, the participants in the conference had raised over $150, setting a new record for PelMUNC, and the faces of the leaders of the Plague Inc. committee, Vedika Basavatia and Lukas Glist, were covered in pastry.

“PelMUNC this year was another great memory for us students, whether through running the conference or acting as delegates,” PelMUNC Vice President Tommy Roche said. “Without the school’s support and the help of our advisor, James Marcotullio, none of this could have happened.”