On Thursday, November 21, the Corry Area High School Chapter of the The National Honor Society held their Induction Ceremony. NHS is made up of a collective of students who are juniors or seniors with high scholastic achievements of a 95 GPA, sponsors, and adults who were former members.
Founded in 1921, over a century ago, the NHS was nationwide and is now a worldwide society. To qualify to join you must, as previously mentioned, be a junior or senior with a 95 GPA and the faculty council reviews every member who joins. The council examines students to see if they qualify for the four core values or “pillars” as seen fit by the council.
The four pillars include scholarship, service, leadership and character. Scholarship refers to a students want, ability, and commitment to learning. Service includes helping others with no or zero expectation of being compensated, rewarded, or recognition. Leadership is measured in one’s ability to be honest and integral, helping others to succeed and become successful, and inspiring others through their actions and words. Character includes, yet isn’t limited to, the thoughts, words, actions, and qualities such as reliability integrity, and sincerity.
The NHS does things that one would consider community service. Seeing as their core values include inspiring others and helping others it comes as no surprise that they do things like blood drives, letters to Santa with young kids, and charity work/donations. The NHS tries to recognize hard work and kindness in the community.
Do you think you qualify? With these standards do you believe you could qualify to join the NHS? Do you think you can commit to learning, help others expecting no reward, compensation, or recognition, be honest, integral, help others to be successful, inspire others through action and word, and contain a good character through your words, actions, thoughts, reliability, integrity, and sincerity? If so, you might be selected by your school for your local chapter of the National Honor Society.
