On April 15, the National Honor Society (NHS) Induction Ceremony will be held in the auditorium at 6 p.m.
The ceremony will commence with a brief welcome followed by a formal announcement of all the inductees. Administrators and elected NHS officers will then speak about the four main pillars of NHS: Scholarship, character, leadership and community service.
Each inductee must undergo a formal procedure in order to be properly inducted.
“[A formal induction] has to be done, typically by a principal or an administrator,” adviser Deidra Dumm said. “They read to them the actual National Honor Society pledge… All of the students stand up, raise their right hand, they do the whole repeat after me type of thing… They also have to sign into the formal book. So every class since [the 1970s] has been signing into the same book. So some of their grandparents have signed this book, some of their parents have signed this book, and it’s generational.”
If a student is unable to attend the induction ceremony, they will have to make up the induction in order to properly become a member of the NHS.
“Nobody can become a member unless they have gone through the formal pledge, the formal process of signing into the book as well,” Dumm said. “There are a few students, usually not many, each year that cannot make it, so we just set aside a few minutes with Mr. Neely. Usually in the morning he does the pledge with them, they sign the book, and now they’re formally inducted.”
Students were selected to be inducted based on their academic performance, community service and character.
“It’s an actual, pretty intense process,” Dumm said. “Originally what happens is they have to meet the scholarship portion. To meet the scholarship portion, a student has to be ranked in the top 80 of the junior class by the end of the second nine weeks based upon their weighted GPA. They also must have an unweighted GPA at that point of a 92.000%… Those 80 students are then provided with, for lack of a better term, an application. It’s really to provide proof or evidence that they meet the other qualifications along the way.”
Juniors Adam Strohman and Skylar Irwin will be inducted into the NHS.
“It felt great to serve my community, and now I can finally get recognized for being a good role model in my community,” Strohman said.
“It’s a reward for all the hard work you’ve done over all your years,” Irwin said. “It’s cool to be a part of something with all your friends. I feel like throughout your high school experience you always just wait in anticipation to see if you’re gonna be able to be awarded with this. Being able to actually get it, it’s an honor.”
