THIS PAST week, 53 students were inducted into Mount Carmel School’s Immaculate Conception Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) and Father Arnold Bendowski Chapter of the National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS).
Bishop Ryan Jimenez, was on hand to help celebrate the special occasion. He also opened the induction ceremony with a prayer and a blessing of the candles representing the values of the honor societies.
After the blessing, school president, Galvin Deleon Guerrero, welcomed every- one gathered with opening remarks. In his remarks, Deleon Guerrero challenged all students, whether inducted or not, to see themselves as more than who they are now and, instead, all they can be in the future.
Soon after Fr. Ryan’s blessing, current honor society students explained the respective values of the honor societies. For the NJHS, those values are scholarship, service, leader- ship, character, and citizen- ship. As for the NEHS, its values are scholarship, responsibility, leadership, and service. Students who have a 3.0 GPA fulfill the scholarship value of each society and are invited to apply for membership, for which they must demonstrate that they embody the other values of each respective society.
After the honor societies’ were explained, inductees were identified by the ceremonious “tapping” ritual, in which current honor society members go around tapping inductees on their shoulders and inviting them to the main staging area to take their oaths, receive their membership insignia, and sign into the membership ledger.
Inductees into the Immaculate Conception Chapter of the NJHS: Francine Monique Albuen, Keehara Nielsen Baldazo, Kyla Monique Cabrera, Moeisha Eleanor Cruz, Kina Dela Cruz, Raphael Christian Galang, Lynzey Valencia Green, Brissa Hunter, Renee Kiser, Hannah Lacap, Mikee Mendoza, William Kazuki Minami, Brent Matthew Ortizo, Manuel Pangelinan, Mathew Adrian Sablan, Vince Philip Salvador, Yurihana Rosa Sasamoto, Theresa Rose Schweiger, Mariana Tenorio, Kristan Rose Torres.
