The purpose of the National Junior Honor Society is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, to develop character, and to encourage good citizenship in middle school students. Students are selected for membership after the posting of first semester grades based on scholarship, school and community activities, leadership, service, and teacher recommendation. As members, they promise to follow the NJHS pledge:
I pledge myself to uphold
the high purposes of the National Junior Honor Society
to which I have been selected.
I will be true to the principles for which it stands.
I will be loyal to my school,
and will maintain and encourage
high standards of scholarship, service, leadership,
character, and citizenship.
The members select officers to serve as president, vice-president, recording secretary and corresponding secretary/treasurer.
These students organize and lead the activities throughout the school year. Activities include: leading the Honor Roll Assemblies, sponsoring H. B. Spirit Days, completing a school service project, and working with the H.B. Student Council to collect for the community canned food drive. Perhaps most importantly, honor society students serve as positive role models every day for their classmates.
This organization meets once per month. The first meeting will be in February 2006. The meeting schedule is flexible in order to coordinate with athletics and other extra-curricular activities. In addition, volunteer members meet at the end of each marking period to complete the honor assembly invitations and as activity sub-committees. Sponsor: Lori Oller