I am assuming the data is comming from a web page. A few questions have to be asked before the question could be answered. Checkboxes imply a multiple valued result, is your result mulitvalued. If not the visual element you may want is a radio button. The obvious thing was mentioned in another comment that you should add the names to the list of fields

@fields =("first","last","position","email",
          "telephone","presider","status","shift");
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This assumes that the method param of object $q will return the values for status and shift. There are a couple of other things to considier. The programs that read the database will have to be modified to handle the extra fields. Also the database will have to be updated to add the extra fields to the existing records.